Movie Review Thread

[Beskar]

Prisoners - 3.1/10 (IMDB 8.1/10)

For a movie which some how rated 8.1/10 on IMDB, you would think it would at least be decent. It also stars Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, it is bound to be good, right?

Wrong.

It was the longest winded snoozefest imaginable, this is me continuing to watch it with "It is bound to pick up a little now.. surely". No, it was a complete whitenoise moment, which left me and the two others I were with sorely disappointed.

The only half-decent scene is when Hugh Jackman kidnaps some autistic paedophile then proceeds to hit him a couple of times. It had that moment where "This is what it means by 'breaking the rules in the film description'" ... then it completely disappears. The moment from where "You think something will spring up from this" to the realisation they just throw him into a box and torture him for kicks because there is no way he can or will give an answer.

There is also the annoying moment which is sort of a game where we make these inane comments near the start of the movie/program which turns out to be the mainplot/twist. We said "It is going to be X" and low-and-behold it was X.

Then there are moments where disbelief just kicks in. That ending was very painful too in this department...

If you want a complete snoozefest with no suspense (other than the suspend of hoping it will pickup, but doesn't) with no intelligence or drama or even 'thriller' involved in its creation, then this is the movie for you.

The acting in it was shabby and lacklustre too.